How to find an English-speaking techie in Korea?

November 29, 2005 7:42 AM

How can I find someone in Seoul, Korea, who speaks English and Korean and is reasonably tech-literate?

I need to track down someone bilingual and reasonably tech savvy in the Seoul area to help me trial some technology services over there and report their findings back to me. There doesn't seem to be - or at least I've never found - a good way on the Net to find people based on certain attributes (e.g. their location, their language skills). Does anyone have any ideas?

posted by runkelfinker to technology (10 answers total)

stravros the wonder chicken?
posted by matteo at 7:48 AM on November 29, 2005

That would be stavrosthewonderchicken.
posted by matildaben at 7:56 AM on November 29, 2005

stavrosthewonderchicken
posted by terrapin at 8:06 AM on November 29, 2005

Thanks guys - I didn't think of searching peoples' profiles. I'll drop stwc an e-mail...
posted by runkelfinker at 8:29 AM on November 29, 2005

Thank the gal too, runkelfinker.
posted by terrapin at 8:39 AM on November 29, 2005

Dave's ESL Cafe has boards you can post to, and has a section devoted to Korea.
posted by squirrel at 8:47 AM on November 29, 2005

Thanks as well squirrel...

Don't worry, my 'guys' is always meant gender-neutrally ('gals' doesn't fly in British English)...
posted by runkelfinker at 8:54 AM on November 29, 2005

If stav can't help you, I've got a friend that lives in Seoul, speaks korean, japanese, and english and lives+breathes technology.
posted by shoepal at 12:56 PM on November 29, 2005

Well, I don't live in Seoul (down in the south, in Jeollanam-do), and my Korean isn't good enough to call me bilingual (at least for that pair of languages), but I'm up for whatever if you need some help despite those shortcomings.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:02 AM on November 30, 2005

Thanks Stavros, I've sent you an e-mail to your mefi account...
posted by runkelfinker at 6:08 AM on November 30, 2005